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Verified · cmc

cmc <hello@cleberg.net> · 2026-08-23 21:37 UTC

Rename the project to omaha-metro-blotter

The repo covers six agencies across two states, ALPR camera locations
and Flock search audits, not just Omaha incidents. Updates the user
agent, the site footer link, the nfo banner and a stale opd_csv
reference in the usage block.

Layout: unified · split

README.nfo +7 −6

		@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
1	1	┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
2		│ O M A H A I N C I D E N T S [ KRZ ] krz.sh │
	2	│ O M A H A M E T R O B L O T T E R [ KRZ ] krz.sh │
3	3	└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
4	4
5	5	WHAT
6		police activity across the omaha metro, pulled from the agencies'
7		own feeds and joined against alpr camera locations from
8		openstreetmap.
	6	an archive of police activity and alpr surveillance across the
	7	omaha metro, pulled from the agencies' own feeds. sarpy county,
	8	council bluffs and the flock portals all serve rolling windows and
	9	delete what falls outside them; this keeps it.
9	10
10	11	COVERAGE
11	12	omaha pd dcgis arcgis view, 2022-01-01 onward,
		@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ USE
42	43	.venv/bin/python ingest.py --full # first run, backfill
43	44	.venv/bin/python ingest.py # daily, last 30 days
44	45	.venv/bin/python ingest.py cbpd sarpy # one source at a time
45		.venv/bin/python ingest.py opd_csv # 2015-2023 csv archive
	46	.venv/bin/python ingest.py opd_archive # omaha 2015-2021 backfill
46	47	.venv/bin/python app.py
47	48
48	49	SITE
		@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ ARCHIVE
91	92
92	93	to run the pull locally instead:
93	94
94		0 6 * * * cd /path/to/omaha-incidents && .venv/bin/python ingest.py
	95	0 6 * * * cd /path/to/omaha-metro-blotter && .venv/bin/python ingest.py
95	96
96	97	RAW
97	98	raw_records keeps the feed's own json for every version of every

fetch_boundaries.py +1 −1

		@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def fetch(layer):
38	38	"maxAllowableOffset": TOLERANCE, "f": "geojson"}
39	39	url = layer["url"] + "/query?" + urllib.parse.urlencode(params)
40	40	# Sarpy's MapServer 403s the default Python-urllib agent
41		req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-incidents/1.0"})
	41	req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-metro-blotter/1.0"})
42	42	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120, context=CTX) as r:
43	43	return json.load(r)
44	44

ingest.py +2 −2

		@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def get(url, params, retries=4):
128	128	for attempt in range(retries):
129	129	try:
130	130	req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=body,
131		headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-incidents/1.0"})
	131	headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-metro-blotter/1.0"})
132	132	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120, context=SSL_CTX) as r:
133	133	payload = json.load(r)
134	134	except (urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:
		@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ def ingest_opd_archive(conn, _since):
321	321	rows, seen = [], {}
322	322	for year in OPD_ARCHIVE_YEARS:
323	323	url = OPD_ARCHIVE.format(y=year)
324		req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-incidents/1.0"})
	324	req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-metro-blotter/1.0"})
325	325	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180, context=SSL_CTX) as r:
326	326	text = r.read().decode("utf-8-sig", "replace")
327	327	reader = csv.DictReader(text.splitlines())

site_template.html +1 −1

		@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ footer a { color: var(--text-secondary); }
152	152
153	153	<footer>
154	154	<p>Built from the agencies' own published feeds: the Omaha Police incident view on DCGIS, the Sarpy County PublicCrimeMap, the Council Bluffs public calls-for-service feed, and the Flock Safety transparency portals. Camera locations from OpenStreetMap contributors, <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/">ODbL</a>.</p>
155		<p>The Sarpy County and Council Bluffs feeds keep a rolling twelve months and drop what falls outside it. This archive keeps what they drop. Source and the full database: <a href="https://github.com/krazywarez/omaha-incidents">github.com/krazywarez/omaha-incidents</a>.</p>
	155	<p>The Sarpy County and Council Bluffs feeds keep a rolling twelve months and drop what falls outside it. This archive keeps what they drop. Source and the full database: <a href="https://github.com/krazywarez/omaha-metro-blotter">github.com/krazywarez/omaha-metro-blotter</a>.</p>
156	156	</footer>
157	157	</div>
158	158

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